The logo has a corresponding design for the Paralympics. Japanese baseball great Sadaharu Oh, who was a member of the selection committee, announced the winning design. The unveiling ceremony was ...

Japan marked three years before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on July 24 with celebration and fanfare -- even as organisers struggle to contain soaring costs and restore credibility.

Last October, after drama over a potentially plagiarized logo, the Tokyo Organizing Committee put out an open call for submissions for a new emblem. Ideas arrived in droves: 14,599 designs, from ...

Tokyo has a logo for its 2020 Olympic games, and what a confusing one it is. The flat symbol, ... Unlike Japan’s other design exports, Sano’s logo for Tokyo is less but not more.

TOKYO – Tokyo Olympic organizers on Tuesday decided to scrap the logo for the 2020 Games following another allegation its Japanese designer might have used copied materials. Reversing their ...

Tokyo 2020 Pulls Olympic Logo, ... saying the image presented by Japanese designer Kenjiro Sano was too similar to one he created for the Theatre de Liège in 2011.

EMBARRASSING SCANDALS. The stadium and logo scandals have become a major embarrassment for Japan, which hosted the 1964 Summer Games. When Tokyo beat Madrid and Istanbul to host the 2020 event ...

A controversial logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been scrapped amid allegations of plagiarism against designer Kenjiro Sano, the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee has said. Organizers had ...

TOKYO -- Japanese designer Kenjiro Sano rejects claims he copied the emblem of a Belgian theater when he created the official logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. At a news conference on Wednesday ...

As a taste of what’s to come, Japan took the metaphorical baton and closed the ceremony with a Tokyo 2020 logo reveal that absolutely stole the show. Rio’s ceremonies were educational and well ...